DPW performed a cold patch on this area and is now returned to safe condition.

So now the Pothole/manhole cover.....which was never fixed previously has been plowed through with a city plow during our 1st snow storm of the season and now all cars have to drive around this mess in the middle of the road to get by. Fingers crossed no-one drives over it in the evening hours as they can experience severe tire damage if not damage to their vehicle as well. C.O.Q. please DOAP to fix the issue once and for all!!! Please ensure the safety of the residents and children on the street!! Thank you.

3 years later and there are still 2-3 holes yet to be filled on this dead end street.

Also, a side walk that cannot be accessed due to tree/shrub debris (you can't even see the sidewalk b/c of all the shrubs that cover it...disgraceful to say the least) Owners should be made aware of this and given a warning or forced to clean/clear up this big mess. Children are forced to use the street rather than a sidewalk! This is unfair to those who care for their properties and to tax payers! Plz help!

Good as it gets.

It was fixed.

These lights have been repaired and are now functioning properly.

Maura,
The DPW reports that this street has been swept. Please feel free to contact me should you have any additional questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Chris from the Mayor's Office

The DPW reports that this pothole was filled on 11 December.

Pothole was not filled as its still full of snow. Pothole in front of 153 Butler Rd

This location (153) has been reported to DPW as a road depression. DPW will schedule repair. It appears that this is more than a pothole, based on a site visit I performed earlier today.

This 6x6 area has been filled and leveled by the DPW. I performed a site visit to verify.

Resolved some time sgo

The DPW reports that these potholes were repaired on 12/18/12

Thank you for the quick and efficient response!! Great job!!

Good news---my husband and I moved here last summer and we've just registered to vote. I have no shame. I'll start calling the mayor's office this week. :)

Notice how this one particular thread wasn't touched by the City?

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Sea Street will be the first project completed using Chapter 90 funds provided by the State. If you read the following State House News article, you will see that these funds have not been released due to lack of movement at the State House. The City has identified contractors, performed all the requisite preliminary work (i.e. water main replacement) and is ready to move on final reconstruction, just as soon as the State House releases the funding. We are incredibly frustrated that we have not been able to move sooner, but we cannot do so until the funding is in place.
Chris from the Mayor's Office

By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JUNE 12, 2012…. Local officials implored the Patrick administration on Tuesday to intervene in negotiations between the House and Senate over a bill that would provide $200 million for road and bridge projects, warning that every passing day without agreement is another day wasted in a shortening construction season.

The bill that cleared the House and Senate has been stuck in a conference committee for the past seven weeks with few signs of movement from either branch toward a deal that would free up communities to sign construction contracts and get crews working on local road projects.

The House in March stripped out most of those provisions from Gov. Deval Patrick's $1.5 billion transportation bond bill, opting to only pass the Chapter 90 funds. While the Senate agreed to the $200 million commitment for local road and bridge projects, the branch tacked on hundreds of millions of dollars in highway, rail and transit spending authorizations, passing a $1.3 billion bond bill that has complicated talks.

“There is today a deep level of frustration with what is happening with Chapter 90, frustration around what should be a good story,” said Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan, during a monthly meeting of the Local Government Advisory Committee.

Officials said the lack of action has already shortened the construction season, increasing competition for contractors and likely requiring some projects to carry over to next year when they will be more expensive. Though cities and towns received notifications of their likely level of aid in early April as required by law, communities that have bid projects are still unable to sign contracts for the work until the funding has been approved.

“This plays into contractors’ hands because we’re all going to bid at the same time,” Sullivan said.

The conference committee members were due to meet on Tuesday to resume negotiations, according to several sources. Transportation Committee Co-chairs Rep. William Straus and Sen. Thomas McGee are the lead negotiators, joined by Reps. Antonio Cabral and Peter Durant and Sens. Brian Joyce and Robert Hedlund.

Salem Mayor Kimberley Driscoll called Chapter 90 funding “bread and butter” for smaller communities who rely on the annual state aid to maintain local roadways.

“The conundrum now is we can’t seem to get it released. It’s really starting to have an impact,” Driscoll said.

Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray said the administration has communicated the need to reach a resolution on the bill quickly to legislative leaders. Murray and Gov. Deval Patrick met with Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Therese Murray on Monday, and Murray said all of the administration’s transportation priorities were conveyed.

“Now that the T fix is moving down the track, we hope this can be right behind it because we know this is jobs, quality of life, public safety in every community that receives Chapter 90,” Lt. Gov. Murray said.

Jokingly comparing the stalemate to the partisan gridlock in Washington, D.C., Murray said, “We’re going to keep pushing and prodding and hopefully we can get something out before Washington reaches an agreement on transportation funding.”

The House is due to debate an MBTA financing bill on Wednesday that would dedicate $51 million in surplus revenue to the transit agency to avoid higher fare increases and deeper service cuts than those already approved for fiscal 2013.

“I’m kind of frustrated we’re doing this and still haven’t gotten Chapter 90 done,” House Minority Leader Brad Jones told the News Service earlier Tuesday.

Rep. Daniel Winslow said he had filed, with support of Republican leadership, an amendment to the MBTA bill that ties the release of Chapter 90 funding to the MBTA bailout, stipulating that the additional funding for the T would only become available once the governor had signed a Chapter 90 bond bill.

“What we have now is a situation of the Democrats behaving badly while our construction jobs suffer and our roads fall into further disrepair and there’s no excuse for it,” Winslow said.

Senate Republicans in May urged the conference committee in a letter to release the Chapter 90 funding immediately, and hold the rest of provisions in conference for further negotiation. The Senate conferees responded with a second letter taking the position that failure to enact the more comprehensive Senate version of the bill would "miss the opportunity to put Massachusetts citizens to work" and jeopardize 113 Federal Aid highway projects. Hedlund signed both letters.

"With your support, the Senate took action on the Transportation Bond Bill and identified the need to not only fund Chapter 90, but fully approve the short-term bond bill filed by the Governor. This Senate bill is essential to the Commonwealth, and the projects of the bond bill need to be finalized as quickly as possible," the conferees wrote.

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Thanks Chris. The DPW is fixing it right now. Yay!

Thanks for the compliment!